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<span id="g_t_0040euro-_0028_20ac_0029_003a-Euro-Currency-Symbol"></span><h4 class="subsection">12.8.6 <code>@euro</code> (€): Euro Currency Symbol</h4>
<span id="euro"></span><span id="index-euro"></span>
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<p>Use the <code>@euro{}</code> command to generate ‘€’. Where
possible, this is the symbol for the Euro currency. Otherwise, the
word ‘<samp>Euro</samp>’ is used.
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<p>Texinfo cannot magically synthesize support for the Euro symbol where
the underlying system (fonts, software, whatever) does not support it.
Therefore, you may find it preferable to use the word “Euro”. (In
banking contexts, the abbreviation for the Euro is EUR.)
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<p>In order to get the Euro symbol in encoded Info output, for example,
it is necessary to specify <code>@documentencoding ISO-8859-15</code> or
<code>@documentencoding UTF-8</code> (See <a href="_0040documentencoding.html"><code>@documentencoding</code></a>.)
The Euro symbol is in ISO 8859-15 (aka Latin 9), and is
<em>not</em> in the more widely-used ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1).
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<p>The Euro symbol does not exist in the standard TeX fonts (which
were designed before the Euro was legislated into existence).
Therefore, TeX uses an additional font, named <code>feymr10</code> (along
with other variables). It is freely available, of course; you can
download it from <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/eurosym">http://ctan.org/pkg/eurosym</a>, among other
places. The distribution includes installation instructions.
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